5. Colonizing the Subject: The Genealogy and Legacy of the Soviet Internal Passport

Garcelon, Marc

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“…State-issued documents form a less obtrusive but equally powerful technique for imposing a national category onto a population. Imperial Russia (Avrutin 2010, 53-85), the Soviet Union (Zaslavsky and Luryi 1979;Garcelon 2001;Simonsen 2005), and apartheid South Africa (Bowker and Star 1999) created identification cards that assigned citizens to an obligatory national category. Cards that associate their bearer with a disfavored category might spectacularly curtail an individual's rights or freedoms.…”

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Nationalism as classification: suggestions for reformulating nationalism research

Maxwell

2018

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Instead of thinking about “national identity,” scholars of nationalism would do well to study nationalism as a process of classification, treating national conflict as disputes over nationalized categories. Disputes over national classification take various forms: patriots argue over which category applies, which categories exist, and which categories have which status. Techniques for imposing classificatory categories also deserve attention. The contributors to this themed issue of Nationalities Papers illustrate the power of analysis based on classification.

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Nationalism as classification: suggestions for reformulating nationalism research

Maxwell

2018

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“…Because these restrictions generated resistance and noncompliance, the state had to commit substantial human and financial resources to the police and other agencies that monitored and regulated migration. To put this in terms of contemporary social theorists such as Michel Foucault or James Scott, the Soviet state aspired to a much higher degree of “discipline” over its subjects' mobility and demanded to “see” their location much more clearly than its Western counterparts (Foucault 1995; Scott 1998; Garcelon 2001). 44…”

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“…5 5 On Soviet policies on both internal and external travel and migration, see Matthews (1978, 1993). Later reappraisals of Soviet internal migration policies include Buckley (1995) and Garcelon (2001). The most comprehensive account of Soviet border controls is by Chandler (1998).…”

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What Does It Mean to Control Migration? Soviet Mobility Policies in Comparative Perspective

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2012

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The migration policies of the former Soviet Union (or USSR) included a virtual abolition of emigration and immigration, an effective ban on private travel abroad, and pervasive bureaucratic controls on internal migration. This article outlines this Soviet package of migration controls and assesses its historical and international distinctiveness through comparison with a liberal state, the United States, and an authoritarian capitalist state, Apartheid South Africa. Soviet limitations on external migration were more restrictive than those of contemporary capitalist states, and Soviet regulation of internal migration was unusual in its direct bureaucratic supervision of the individual. However, Soviet policy did not aim at the suppression of internal migration, but at its complete regularization. The ultimate goal was “regime adherence”: the full integration of the citizen into the Soviet political order. In contrast to the USSR, migration in the contemporary world is marked by “irregularization”: policies that lead to the proliferation of insecure and unauthorized migration.

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“…Rather, the proposed expansion of NEXUS and SENTRI passes is evocative of the internal passes associated with the authoritarian governments in South Africa and the Soviet Union. There, passes sought to limit and restrict the movement and residential options of the majority of the population—blacks and rural dwellers—as a mechanism for facilitating particular kinds of economic restructuring, and “for discriminating among its subjects in terms of rights and privileges” (Torpey 2000:165; Garcelon 2001; Lyon 2001). In North America, by contrast, special passes provide advantages to their bearers who are able to maximize themselves in the more integrated regional economy that is touted as being at the very heart of the SPP.…”

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Leaky Borders and Solid Citizens: Governing Security, Prosperity and Quality of Life in a North American Partnership

Gilbert

2007

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The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), signed by Canada, Mexico and the United States in March 2005, proposes a dramatic reshaping of the continent. This is no simple plan for the intensification of economic and security cooperation. The SPP is much more expansive and includes quality of life issues such as education, science and technology, the environment, and health. But what does it mean that there is an emergent concern with biopolitics, that is, with the lives and bodies of the region's citizens, at the trilateral level? How are these citizens being imagined in the new regional vision? What are the implications for states and sovereignty? This paper addresses these questions by turning first to the trope of "partnership" as it emerges in the SPP, and then to the ways that borders and population mobility are being construed. The discourse of "partnership" signals a new political rationality that is reconfiguring the relationship between the North American states, their markets and their citizens. The repercussions for citizens and citizenship are especially significant, and are most clearly apparent vis-à-vis border policies, as I discuss in the following section. While external borders are being hardened against most foreign nationals, mobility across internal borders is becoming more differentiated: more penetrable for some, and impassable for others. The SPP thus promotes a divisive and striated regional space that will help perpetuate the ongoing tensions around illegal immigrants and undocumented workers in North America.

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5. Colonizing the Subject: The Genealogy and Legacy of the Soviet Internal Passport

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Nationalism as classification: suggestions for reformulating nationalism research

Nationalism as classification: suggestions for reformulating nationalism research

What Does It Mean to Control Migration? Soviet Mobility Policies in Comparative Perspective

Leaky Borders and Solid Citizens: Governing Security, Prosperity and Quality of Life in a North American Partnership

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